[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906

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Recommends sarora27 · 2020-09 · on “A Brief Cultural History of the Parking Lot”

This reminds me of a cool video i saw the other day of San Francisco's Market Street in 1906: [this video] It's so interesting to see how people, street cars, horse & carts, and cars all seemed to share the road in what seemed like a controlled chaos manner

Recommends GeekyBear · 2021-10 · on “The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video]”

I've really come to enjoy these sorts of upscaled videos that allow a view of various cities in the early 1900's. New York: [LINK] San Francisco: [this video] Paris: [LINK] Wuppertal, Germany: [LINK]

Recommends carapace · 2022-07 · on “When coal first arrived, Americans said 'no thanks'”

FWIW, check out "A Trip Down Market Street", filmed in 1906 in SF just before the earthquake. [LINK] Upscaled and colorized: [this video] You can see pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, and early automobiles all "flowing" together.

Recommends carapace · 2023-10 · on “CA DMV suspends Cruise deployment and driverless testing permits”

The two things are orthogonal. Item: humans driving huge machines on every street is and always has been totally insane. The reason we do it is because of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign. No really. See: "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime (Adam Ruins Everything)" [LINK] You can see the origin of the situation from this extraordinary film shot just before the 1906 Earthquake: "San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906" [this video] You can see that horses, horse-drawn wagon and carts, and pedestrians could and did mix together in the public way. There are also early automobiles, and the problem is obvious: cars accelerate faster than horses. Already we can see reckless

Cites dmix · 2020-08 · on “Street View of 1940s New York”

Regardless still looks like morning hours on a snowy/winter day in most. Look at Market Street, San Francisco in 1906: [this video] Plenty of cars, bikes, and people. I doubt NYC was much different in 1940 at higher trafficked hours.

Cites DominikPeters · 2020-12 · on “Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’”

Old film footage suggests to me that it was just more "lanes" and in general more chaotic, e.g.: [LINK] [this video]

Cites carapace · 2022-08 · on “Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection”

If it helps, it's the result of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign. I usually point to "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) [LINK] for the story. We can see what traffic was like just as motorized carriages began to mix with pedestrians and horses. Here is "San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906" upscaled and colorized: [this video] You can see that, at low speeds and modest density, carriages and pedestrians flow together just fine. Although I'm sure there were still lots of accidents, everyone is more-or-less sharing the space. You can already see the problem brewing: horseless carriages can accelerate much faster than horse-drawn carriages.

Cites carapace · 2023-05 · on “How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps”

I just want to take a moment to remind everybody just how insane car travel is as a mode of transportation. Sure, it's convenient , but at what cost!? Air pollution, tire particle pollution, covering the Earth with asphalt, etc. Also, and this is gruesome so brace yourself, car travel causes incredible amounts of human suffering. Car collisions cause something like 40,000 fatalities per year just in the USA. In fact, more Americans have died in car crashes than in all the wars we've fought. I call it the "Mayhem Lottery". Anyone can play, little kids, old people, pregnant women, everybody. And the tickets cost nothing, all you have to do is be near a street. (Sometimes cars will even crash i